Chuck & Buck is an intelligent, multi-layered exploration of romantic obsession, and adolescence not just arrested, but held completely captive; it’s also, as David Edelstein puts it, “the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made”. Writing and playing the role of Buck — an emotionally fragile, detached 27-year-old man-child who packs his life up in order to reunite with his one close childhood friend, Chuck, in Los Angeles — is screenwriter Mike White, and he imbues his poor, misguided creation with a mix of innocence, love and offness that makes him impossible to reject, yet hard to embrace. Directed by Miguel Arteta and employing lo-fi DV imagery to its righteous fullest, Chuck & Buck is an enthralling human dichotomy that imbues Cassavetes-styled invasiveness and whimsy with several coats of creepiness and a swathe of universal empathy. Miguel Arteta and Mike White will be here in person for a Q&A after the show, as well as several other members of the film’s cast! Show starts at 8 P.M.

Dir. Miguel Arteta, 2000, 35mm, 96 min.

Tickets – $12/$8 for members